Participatory Facilitation: A Healthy Approach to Reaching Your Goals
Learn how participatory facilitation can create settings and conversations that cultivate leadership among people impacted by social injustice.
Workshop
Building Values Based Human Resources Practices
In this half-day workshop, you will spend time identifying and understanding which values are implicit, which are explicit and how the design of your current human resources systems helps to support or contradict those values. Participants will spend time developing a plan to improve this alignment within their organizations.
Board Basics: A Toolkit of Best Practices for Nonprofit Boards
A nonprofit board navigates an organization’s path toward a sustainable future by creating an effective governance structure with sound, legal and financial management policies, and a plan that ensures adequate resources to advance its mission.
Roots of Migration: US Immigration Policy Past and Present
Presented by the Center to Support Immigrant Organizing and their Teen and Young Adult Immigrant Leaders, this interactive workshop will give participants historical and current context for the root causes of migration to the United Stated. CSIO has a fifteen year history of supporting organizers, leaders and activists in overcoming barriers to justice for immigrant communities. A firm understanding on the how and why people migrate to the United States is the bedrock on which effective support of these populations are built.
Advancing Racial Justice in Organizations
Advancing Racial Justice is a one day workshop for organizations like yours that are ready to take your beliefs and put them into action. If you want to learn how to operationalize racial justice within your organization and through your strategy and actions, this is the workshop for you.
Finance for Poets
The Finance for Poets workshop is designed for nonprofit leaders who do not have formal training or deep experience in accounting or financial management. It is especially focused on helping these leaders overcome the barriers of jargon and intimidation that obstruct them from engaging fully in financial discussions with colleagues, board members, and external stakeholders.
Telling Your Nonprofit’s Story in the Digital Age
Great storytelling is the best way to capture the attention, as well as the hearts and minds, of your supporters. According to research done by Waggener Edstrom of social media users who support nonprofits online, 56% said that compelling storytelling is what motivated them to take action in the first place.
Becoming a Power Presenter
Learn to be a powerful presenter! Not everyone feels comfortable in front of a crowd. Whether it’s presenting an informal report, delivering a keynote speech, or simply speaking up during a meeting, finding your true and confident voice can be a challenge. Using a theater-derived approach and practical “on-your-feet” exercises, this workshop will give you the tools required to engage your audience with warmth, confidence and clarity.
Battle for Hearts and Minds
Nonprofit professionals often find themselves frustrated by the way the public thinks and talks about the issues they care about. That broad public conversation — also called the public narrative — shapes the way our audiences consider the problems we seek to solve, and the solutions we propose to solve them. Shifting that narrative to one that is more complete, productive, or just plain accurate can be a bewildering prospect for any advocate.
Align Your Mission to Your Nonprofit Programming
This workshop will take program and front line staff through a series of questions and group activities that will help them design an effective logic model to propel their organization.
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